Roger Donaldson's remake of the Jim Thompson pulp novel stays pretty close to the Peckinpah version, moves no closer to Thompson. (Does Walter Hill receive co-screenwriting credit for new work or for the same old yellowed 1972 script?) The movie replicates the Peckinpah even to the extent of its use as a vehicle for real-life lovers: Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw the first time around; and now Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger — supposedly small-time crooks, but big-time glamorpusses nonetheless. Donaldson embraces plenty of bright-lit Southwestern scenery within his picture frames, but the relentless action gets increasingly and ludicrously out of hand. With Michael Madsen, Jennifer Tilly, James Woods. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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